I am directing an amateur production of Maskerade to be put on at The Place Theatre Bedford; week commencing September 19. I need a large gentleman to play the tenor Enrico Basilica (Henry Slugg) in Stephen Briggs Adaptation. Rehearsals are Tuesdays and Thursdays at Wootton Village Hall.

Been producing Our Country's Good hence the absence (12th-16th October).

Greebo is a real stumper... toy stuffed cat is all I've ever seen and I wouldn't want that either. I saw a production of the Truth with a human dressed as Gaspode. I checked animatronic cats - very very very expensive.

Transformation from cat to human is ok but human to cat will need to be handled very carefully without it becoming total pantomime... (although maybe we could work that in...

Broomswordstick will apparently need all kinds of idiocy to transfer to and from the theatre according to law and H&S.

And unfortunately at the CX flying people is not something we can do (so I'm told :-} )

Maybe a person dressed as a cat on all fours is the best way to go. Even a man wearing just a mask will work through the Magic of Theatre. People don't expect too much realism at the theatre - they expect to use their imaginations.

It would certainly make the transformation scenes easier. The important thing is the actor act like a cat when he's a cat and like a man when transformed.

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